Wesley Addy

Wesley Addy

  • Birthday: 1913-08-04
  • Deathday: 1996-12-31
  • Place of birth: Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Biography

Wesley Addy (August 4, 1913 – December 31, 1996) was an American actor. He played many roles on the Broadway stage, including several Shakespearean ones, usually opposite actor Maurice Evans. After playing two roles in one of Evans's productions of Hamlet, he played Horatio opposite Evans's Hamlet in a 1953 Hallmark Hall of Fame television production of the work, the most prestigious American production of the play seen on TV up to that time. Also on television he played roles on The Edge of Night in the 1950s. Later, during the 1970s-1980s, he played publisher Bill Woodard on Ryan's Hope and patriarch Cabot Alden on the Agnes Nixon-Douglas Marland serial Loving. In motion pictures, Addy's career spanned four decades. Robert Aldrich used him as supporting actor in several pictures, such as Kiss Me Deadly, The Big Knife (both 1955), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) and The Grissom Gang (1971). In 1976, Addy appeared in Paddy Chayefsky's Network, directed by Sidney Lumet. They would work together again in The Verdict., in which Addy played a doctor who nearly derails Paul Newman's case against a hospital for malpractice. Another of Addy's best-remembered roles was that of Lt. Cdr. Alvin Kramer, who unsuccessfully tries to warn American officials of the impending attack on Pearl Harbor in Tora! Tora! Tora!. Addy was born as Robert Wesley Addy in Omaha, Nebraska and died in Danbury, Connecticut. He was married to actress Celeste Holm from 1961 until his death. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wesley Addy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

Hiroshima

1995

As Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson

The Europeans

1979

As Mr. Wentworth

Loving

1983

As Cabot Alden

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

1962

As Marty McDonald

Time Table

1956

As Dr. Paul Brucker

Kiss Me Deadly

1955

As Lt. Pat Murphy

Ten Seconds to Hell

1959

As Wolfgang Sulke

A Modern Affair

1996

As Ed Rhodes

The Grissom Gang

1971

As John P. Blandish

The Bostonians

1984

As Dr. Tarrant

Network

1976

As Nelson Chaney

The First Legion

1951

As Father John Fulton

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

1964

As Sheriff Standish

The Big Knife

1955

As Horatio "Hank" Teagle

Tora! Tora! Tora!

1970

As Lt. Commander Alwin D. Kramer

The Garment Jungle

1957

As Mr. Paul

Tail Gunner Joe

1977

As Middleton

Rage of Angels

1983

As Abner Parker

Seconds

1966

As John

The Verdict

1982

As Dr. Towler

4 for Texas

1963

As Winthrop Trowbridge

King Lear

1953

As King of France

Before and After

1996

As Judge Grady

Mister Buddwing

1966

As Dice Player

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